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Pretenders
01-03-2003
I was an observer in the first bit.... Jarod [from "The Pretender"] was being chased by a man. Before this man could catch up with him, Jarod was cornered out in the woods by two cops in a police car.

The dream jumped and I took the place of Jarod's character but still retained some pretender abilities... but I never used them. I shot both the cops and took the car. The other man who had been chasing Jarod took up the trail on me. I didn't feel any remorse for shooting the cops, but the dream did flash the fact that I was in real trouble if I was caught. No shit.

The dream faded out a bit here and, when it returned, I was at a huge train station. All the trains were moving, but not really going anywhere... I could hop onto one and then turn and hop back onto one of the station platforms. I suppose they could have been circling around and through the station, but the dream said they were leaving the station... it was weird.

Anyway. If I could get on the train, I'd be safe. However, the guy caught up with me and hopped on as well. The train was passing above another, so I jumped down onto it. Wherever I went, the guy found a way to follow me. I jumped off the train and onto the platform so I could run for another train just leaving. I jumped onto that train and, as the other guy followed me, jumped onto the ground and ran into the woods. That lost him for a little while, but it wasn't long before he took up the chase again.

Not far into the woods, I came to a... I'm not sure how to explain it... I'll have to draw it sometime. It was a manor of sorts. The closest way to explain what it looked like is... a Victorian fantasy with a touch of high gothic cathedral... in house form. It belonged to the "Conductor" [aka owner of the train station] and his daughter. I hid in the manor but, of course, the Unnamed Guy followed me... with the Conductor and another man and lady in tow.

The daughter was an adult now but, long ago, the Conductor had built her a section of the house in scale for a child. I ran up a spiral staircase [think tiny lighthouse stairs] as I tried to figure out how to lose the guy chasing me. I crawled through any window or door that I could squeeze into.

The dream jumped and the man who had arrived with the Unnamed Guy was standing by me. The woman [I'm guessing it to be the Conductor's daughter] was there as well. It was hinted that the other man had pretender abilities too... which are highly prized in the show. The Center is always seeking another pretender to control.

Finally, I was able to exit the house and run down a couple wide stairs that led to a wide path into the woods. The path led to a circular stone mausoleum. I ran down to it and was happy to see the doors unlocked. There were three low circular walls that surrounded the main structure inside. In each wall, were multiple doors which led to the next wall. They were all unlocked.

Suddenly, the guy [not the one originally chasing me] appeared on the stairs. He looked very sick... like he'd collapse at any second. He stumbled toward the mausoleum. I scrunched down where I was and hid. He came right up to my hiding spot with vacant eyes. He took one step closer and put his hand down... which landed on top of my head. This seemed to snap him out of it and he turned to look at me. "My God... they are controlling me!" The Center had trained him to hunt other pretenders.

We both went inside the main structure. There were a bunch of old people inside sitting at tables. I turned something at the entrance to the room and it released a gas. Everyone but the man and I were killed. We didn't know what to do next, so we sat down at a table. The old man sitting there was still struggling to breathe. His eyes bugged out and he suddenly looked very, very familiar [kinda like Gollum in LotR]. He gasped out that we needed to turn the urn in the center of the room... and then died.

The Conductor, woman, and other man were on the trail again and were heading towards the stairs that led into the woods. We turned the urn and a section of the floor spun out of the way to reveal stone steps leading down.

The dream faded here and then started up again. I was alone in the woods. There was another guy trying to chase me. I had the same gun from before and I shot him. I took his jeep and drove to the road. I was suddenly at school and driving around behind the main dorms... but I never shifted out of first as I drove up and around the hill.

The dream jumped again and I was in a room. There were a few cops chasing me. I was trapped. I didn't have the gun anymore, but had a vcr tape that could be used as evidence against me. I popped up one of the big white ceiling tiles and threw it up there. I was trying to fit it in place when I heard the cops climbing the stairs up to the room.

My alarm went off.

End.